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Sea Journal 6 and 10.11.1793; Naish pp. 139–40
    19 Elliot to Wife 16 and 17.12.1793 Minto, Countess ed. The Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot , First Earl of Minto , 1751–1806 , II p. 199
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    1 Rose, J. H. ‘British Rule in Corsica’ in Rose ed. Pitt and Napoleon: Essays and Letters. London, 1912. pp. 60–2.
    2 Hood to Nelson 15 and 28.12.1793; Godfrey, J. H, ed. ‘Corsica 1794’ in Lloyd, C. ed. The Naval Miscellany Volume IV. Navy Records Society (henceforth NRS) London. 1952, pp. 364–5.

    3 Nelson to Wife 16.1.1794; Naish pp. 99–100
    4 Nelson to Locker 17.1.1794; Nicolas pp. 347–8. It is significant that letters to naval correspondents are altogether more analytical, reflecting the cerebral aspect of his work, while those to his family are narratives interspersed with reflections on thwarted ambition.
    5 Nelson to Wife 30.1.1794; Naish pp. 101–2
    6 Journal 6.2.1794; Naish pp. 144–5
    7 Fortescue, J. W. A History of the British Army. Vol. IV, 1906 pp. 182–5. A severe critic of Hood, Fortescue provides a useful counter to the naval accounts. However, his bias is excessive, and largely self-defeating. His other target, Henry Dundas, is also now seen in a more favourable light.
    8 Nelson to Wife 13.2. 1794; Naish pp. 102–3
    9 Nelson to Wife 28.2.1794; Naish pp. 103–4
    10 Hood, Nelson, Dundas and Elliot correspondence of 8–9.3.1794; see NRS, 371–3, Minto and Nicolas.
    11 Minto II p. 247
    12 D’Aubant to Henry Dundas 2.4.1794; NRS pp. 382–3
    13 Moore Diary 21.3.1794. NRS; pp. 378–9. Nelson to Wife 22.3.1794; Naish pp. 106–7
    14 Nelson to Hamilton 27.3.1794; Nicolas pp. 377–9
    15 Hood to Nelson 20 and 21.4.1794; NRS pp. 387–8
    16 Hood to Nelson 24–31.4.1794; NRS pp. 389–91
    17 Nelson to Wife 1–4.5.1794; Naish pp. 109–111
    18 Moore Diary 3.5.1794; NRS pp. 392–3
    19 Hood to Nelson 5, 8,9, 11,13 and 15.5.1794; NRS pp. 393–7
    20 Moore Diary 15.5.1794; NRS pp. 397–8
    21 Hood to Nelson 22.5.1794; NRS p. 399
    22 Nelson to Locker, William Nelson and Wife 30.5.1794; Naish, pp. 112–13, Nicolas pp. 402–4
    23 Nelson to Hood 23.6.1794; Nicolas I p. 413
    24 Hood to Elliot 15.7.1794; Naish p. 172
    25 Hood to Elliot 3.7.1794; Moore Diary 19.6.1794; NRS pp. 403–4
    26 Nelson to Hood 3, 4, 6 and 7.7.1794; Nicolas pp. 417–24 Stuart to Nelson 4.7.1794; NRS p. 405
    27 Nelson to Pollard 14.7.1794; Nicolas p. 436
    28 Moore Diary 13.7.1794; NRS pp. 405–6
    29 Nelson to Hood and Hood to Nelson 12.7.1794; Nicolas pp. 432–3
    30 The precise nature of the injury was never determined. Pugh, Nelson and his Surgeons ,p. 8
    31 Stuart to H. Dundas 13.7.1794; NRS p. 406
    32 Nelson to Hood 18 and 19.7.1794; NRS pp. 407–9. Fortescue p. 193
    33 Hood to Nelson 19.7.1794; NRS p. 408. Nelson to Hood 20.7.1794; NRS p. 409
    34 Hood to Nelson 20, 21 and 22.7.1794; NRS pp. 410–12
    35 Elliot to Duke of Portland (Secretary of State for Home Affairs, now responsible for the island). 28.8.1794; NRS pp. 417–18

    36 Nelson to Wife. 25.8.1794. Naish p. 121.
    37 Nelson to Elliot 4.8.1794. Nelson to Hood 5, 8, 9 and 10.8.1794. Nelson to Agent of Transports at San Fiorenzo 6.8.1794; Nicolas I pp. 464–73
    38 Nelson to Clarence 6–10.8.1794; Nicolas I pp. 474–6
    39 Nelson to Wife 18 and 25.8.1794; Naish pp. 119–21
    40 Rose, pp. 73–4
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    1 Nelson to Wife 1.9.1794; Naish pp. 121–2
    2 Nelson to Wife 12.9.1794; Naish pp. 122–3
    3 Nelson to Suckling 20.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 485
    4 Nelson to Hood 23.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 486. Nelson to Wife 27.9.1794; Naish pp. 124–5. See Nelson to Suckling 20.9.1794; Nicolas I p. 486 for a more favourable view. A week was all it took to disabuse him of his optimism.
    5 Nelson to Hood 2.10.1794 and Hood to Nelson 1.12.1794; Nicolas I pp. 487–8
    6 Lambert, A. D. ‘Admiral Lord Hotham, Command and Reputation in the Age of Nelson’, in Lefevre, P. and Harding, R. eds. Contemporaries of Nelson. 2004
    7 Nelson to Wife 10.10.1794 and continuation on